Wewak
Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak.
Wewak
- Type: City with 88,500 residents
- Description: provincial capital of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Wewak District, East Sepik Province, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-3.5542° or 3° 33′ 15″ south
Longitude
143.6271° or 143° 37′ 38″ east
Population
88,500
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
IATA airport code
WWK
United Nations Location Code
PG WWK
Open location code
6R85CJWG+8R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Wewak” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ወውዋክ”
- Arabic: “ويواك”
- Asturian: “Wewak”
- Azerbaijani: “Wewak”
- Belarusian: “Вевак”
- Bengali: “ওয়েওয়াক”
- Cebuano: “Wewak (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Wewak”
- Chinese: “韋瓦克”
- Chinese: “韦瓦克”
- Dutch: “Wewak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويواك”
- Esperanto: “Wewak”
- Estonian: “Wewak”
- Finnish: “Wewak”
- French: “Wewak”
- Galician: “Wewak”
- German: “Wewak”
- Hausa: “Wewak”
- Hebrew: “וייווק”
- Hindi: “वेवाक”
- Indonesian: “Wewak”
- Italian: “Wewak Urban”
- Italian: “Wewak”
- Japanese: “ウェワク”
- Japanese: “ウエワク”
- Javanese: “Wewak”
- Kazakh: “Уевак”
- Kirghiz: “Веваk”
- Korean: “웨와크”
- Korean: “웨왁”
- Lithuanian: “Vevakas”
- Malay: “Wewak”
- Mingrelian: “ვევაკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wewak”
- Oromo: “Wewak”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਵਾਕ”
- Persian: “وواک”
- Polish: “Wewak”
- Portuguese: “Wewak”
- Pushto: “ویواک”
- Russian: “Вевак”
- Silesian: “Wewak”
- Somali: “Wewak”
- Spanish: “Wewak”
- Swahili: “Wewak”
- Swedish: “Wewak”
- Tajik: “Вевак”
- Tatar: “Вевак”
- Tok Pisin: “Wewak”
- Turkish: “Wewak”
- Ukrainian: “Вевак”
- Urdu: “ویواک”
- Uzbek: “Wewak”
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